SAARC conference: Malik for concerted anti-terrorism efforts

Malik, who was chairing the conference, said that Pakistan is implementing three-dimensional policy against terrorism.

THIMPHU:

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said that Pakistan has been making serious endeavours to eliminate terrorism from society, while emphasising coordinated and concerted efforts to combat the menace.

He was addressing the fourth South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Interior Ministers’ Conference held at Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan.

Malik, who was chairing the conference, said that Pakistan is implementing a three-dimensional policy against terrorism. He suggested that there is need for a constitution of a Saarcpol on the pattern of Interpol. The minister said that Pakistan and the armed forces had rendered great sacrifices in the war against terrorism, adding that the country had imposed ban on 31 organisations.

Home and interior ministers of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka attended the conference.





Published in The Express Tribune, July 24^th, 2011.